The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1887-12-01
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Lit ciTculati0il D1 cOuuteEi6it silver
coin in the City of Mexico is unusually |
large just at present.
Miss Lizzie Bell Sinclair of Eyeritts-
town, Hunterdon county, N. j., COM
pletcd on her 18th birthday u bed-quilt
containing 11,2l0 pieces.
Steve Dorsey is engaged in coaxing
$l,D00.000 foreign capital into this
country to help him consolidate those
Gogebic and Menominee iron mines.
A Junk man at Bushnell found two
boys playing with cast-iron globe
about the size of baseball. 1t
proved to be an unexpioded canister
bomb.
Princess Bismarck wastes no titular
or complimentary words i'll speaking
of her illustrious husband. She never
refers to him otherwise than as Bis
marck."
Joe Young of the Maeomh f@iI.)
pottery recently turned $50 ji.s5 III
nine hours and two minutes. lie has
issued a challenge to any turner of
$500 to $500.
Ex-Vice-President Wheelers will is
TO be contested upon the ground that
he was not competent to make will
at the time it was dated. and that the
signature is not genuine.
The Diario del Hogar says that q
.sfashion club" is being organized in
the City of Mexico by thirty rich
dudes. whose only object will be TO
clothe them selves in the latest styles.
A Muskegon policeman gave girl
fits the other day because She was
paralyzing her piano and killing the
neighbors. They were real its, too,
and a doctor has been attending her
ever since.
A spring strongly impregnated with
sulphur has been discovered near
where the Peoria extension of the
Lake Erie & Western road crosses the
Mackinaw, and there is talk of erect
ing hotel there.
.sWestward the star of empire takes
its way" says the Petoskey Democrat;
and being thus inspired the editor pre-.
diets that inside of three years Petos-
kew will be built up westward as far as
the old slaughter house.
Surveyor d. H. Dawson of Minonk,
H., has curiosity found fortyiiye
feet down in a well he was having dug
on his farm west of Minonk. 1t is a
small stone having on one side
a cut figure the shape of a heart.
Mrs. Phoebe Travis. aged l04, is the
oldest woman i'm Western New York.
She never sat on Washington's knee.
or. indeed, did she ever see him, but
she distinctly remembers his death
and the gloom it cast over the country.
Four couples are living in Killing
worth, Conn.,, who were married IN
1887. and three other couples are liv-
inc in other places who were married
in KiIlingworth in the same year.
Twelve of the fourteen individuals are
natives of that town. The ceremony
in each instance was performed by the
Rev. E. G. Swift.
Prince Bismarck possesses some of
the largest and finest forests in north
ern Germany. aud with the exception
of Prince Fursten berg, the lord of the
Schwarzwald, he is probably the larg
est timber merchant i'll the empire.
Prince Bismarck also owns some very
extensive distiiiefies. his annaual out
put being about 55a,0 900 gallons of
spirits.
There is genuine mineral spring
with rare medicinal qualities on the
James Coddington farm, joining Lin
coin, ILL.,, on the cast. The spring is
not ephcmeral, either, but has been
steady and strong all during the dry
season. By many who have tasted it,
and are qualified to Judge, it is said to
Ibe similar to that at Ell Dorado
Springs.
The German Grown Princes voice
has not yet recovered its full tone, but
he speaks aloud without any difficulty.
When questioned about his health not
long ago. he replied: ''Well, ] am not
hope to be all right again in short
time" He took a six-hour walk the
other day, showing no traces of
fatigue.
Louise Michel. the famous French
communist. is said at last to have
crossed the boundary into insanity, or
at least into alteration. Her publish
ers are refusing TO print her books.
her health is broken. and she is, it is
said, likely to be left to starye ii her
pen and tongue fail her. As a rule,
except in revolutionary districts, she
is now hooted at and iii treated, it is
said, when she speaks.
The stage coach that was carrying
$4,000 from Mazatlan to Rosario to
pay the employees and miners of the
IaJo Mining company recently was
halted by sixteen men at hill known
as Devisadora. The assailants fired a
volley from their rifles, killing a
woman and child, the only passengers
in the coach, and sravely wounding
the conductor. After robbing the
coach of the silver it was permitted to
proceed.
The Rev. Adirondack Murray,
whose speciality is fish stories, crossed
the line into Cana,a recently and
came back crestfallen OF the lying
capacity of the French Canadian he
says: There is a childish enthusiasm
about it that captivates you. He
smiles as he lies. He lays his hands
on his heart he lifts his eyes upward;
he embellishes his little lie with sanity
allnsions; he lies as il he believed his
own lie."
While digging well on the prem
ises of Alfred Todd near Bowen. H..
few days ago John Rice. vino had
charge of the work, was badly burned
by an explosion of gas. fame shoot-
ing into the air for forty or fifty feet.
The blaze did not continue after the
explosion, but the water in the we'll is
mixture of mud aud sand that boils
and bubbles with the escaping gas
with roaring noise thar can be heard
for 100 yards. Mr.. Todd has written
TO geologist about it.
At Stockport, England. few days
ago man named johnson was hauled
before a magistrate on the compiaint
of a woman, who said that he was her
husband, who had deserted her and
his baby twenty-seven years before.
The baby-a buxom lass-was in court,
and after the man had admitted the
truth of the woman's story he was in
troduced to his daughter. The man
had another wife and large family
at Stockport. He was sentenced to
pay 10 shillings a week to his first
wife.
Engineer William Dart of the steam
tug q. Dart at Brunswick, Ca, reports
soaiOn a raftIaSpaEa tho ofbo,. do1,